LNG

US energy engineering company McDermott has received a limited notice to proceed for an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract from Shell for the Manatee natural gas field development project offshore the East Coast of Trinidad and Tobago with supplies destined for LNG production and domestic gas supplies.

Marathon Oil Corp. has entered into a five-year firm liquefied natural gas sales agreement with Glencore Energy UK for a portion of its equity natural gas produced from the Alba Field offshore the West African nation of Equatorial Guinea.

ConocoPhillips has increased LNG activities in 2022 and outlined plans for the Port Arthur LNG export plant in Texas and other projects like cargo shipments to Germany and discussed its costs for the Qatar North Field expansion.

The US LNG export project developer Venture Global is facing environmental challenges with multiple filings from environmental activists to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for the proposed project at Calcasieu Pass in Cameron Parish in Louisiana, known as the CP2 LNG project.

Qatar Petroleum's North Field South (NFS) project has given the front-end engineering and design work to US engineering firm McDermott International.

US engineering company McDermott International was awarded a contract to provide front-end engineering and design services for the Ichthys liquified natural gas field development of Japanese energy firm Inpex Corp. offshore Western Australia.

The Houston, Texas-based company said the award was for a booster compression module with optional engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) for the project.

The booster compression module will be added to the Ichthys LNG central processing facility, located offshore the northwest coast of Western Australia.

“This award illustrates McDermott's continuing expertise in complex offshore EPCI,” said Ian Prescott, McDermott's Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific.

“Our work to date demonstrates our qualifications to deliver smart solutions in challenging environments - and to the highest safety and technical standards,” stated Prescott.

McDermott has been a long-standing operator in the Asia-Pacific energy market as well as being involved in the US Gulf Coast LNG export plant build-out.

McDermott is also undertaking subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines (URF) as part of an expansion of the existing Ichthys LNG facilities.

Engineering will be completed in McDermott's Asia-Pacific headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and was already underway.

Inpex is operator of the onshore Ichthys plant at Bladin Point near Darwin in Australia’s Northern Territory.

The company also has a stake in Royal Dutch Shell’s Prelude FLNG project offshore northwest Australia, as well as the planned development of an onshore plant in Indonesia.

The Australian Ichthys plant came on stream in 2018 and produces almost 9 million tonnes per annum of LNG from two processing Trains.

Shares in Ichthys LNG held by Inpex amount to around 66 percent of equity, while French major Total has 26 percent.

Micro-stakes are additionally held by customers CPC Corp. of Taiwan and Japan’s main utilities and LNG buyers, JERA Co. Inc., Tokyo Gas, Osaka Gas, Kansai Electric and Toho Gas.

McDermott International, the US LNG and energy engineering company, said it won a sizeable fabrication sub-contract for the Greater Tortue-Ahmeyim natural gas development offshore Mauritania and Senegal to underpin floating LNG ventures led by BP of the UK and Dallas, Texas-based Kosmos Energy.

TechnipFMC, the Franco-US liquefied natural gas and energy engineering company, said the outlook for its LNG and subsea growth pillars remained favorable as it posted improved results, boosted by the continued ramp-up and expansion of the Yamal liquefaction plant in Russia.